FROM LAID OFF TWICE TO CHOSEN.

Welcome back to another episode of the Career Evolved podcast and I'm here with [Jenee] Hall and she's become a friend and also an executive coach slash strategic advisor here at Career Evolved and I mean just witnessing your journey from when we first met I knew she was going to be a star in the community but it just really ended up going so many different ways with all the consulting opportunities you really became a mentor in the community and getting this amazing breakthrough through the community I'm just excited to share this story because I think you have a unique journey and it wasn't just a quick path right so what brought you to Career Evolved

double whammy I know and I think that ultimately what I noticed is like we talk a lot about identity transformation and now that you're also an executive coach I think I want to point out why I was like I've got to get [Jenee] to be one of my coaches because when you started to show resourcefulness in this market where there were a couple opportunities that weren't quite ready for you because you bring so much power and yeah you're expensive as you should be right because of the value but when you really want that kind of talent but you're not ready for it because maybe revenue is down or you're waiting on an investor whatever it is you are able to flip the script and get land fractional executive opportunities

I think for me I hesitated doing the identity work at first right so those self-limiting beliefs I was like I'm fine I'm competent I don't need anybody I don't need help even though like I said I wanted more accountability I wanted somebody to do this with me but I think I wanted somebody to really tell me here are all the secrets of how you get a job right I think that's what I was expecting so then when I came in I had this identity work and I had to like say all the things that were like beliefs that I had that were holding me back that was really interesting and it's interesting too because it's not like I did like I wrote those self-limiting beliefs

honestly one of these could be a pathway to a potential c-suite opportunity right so it's like this is a game changer and that's what people don't understand they're gonna hire a c-suite because they solve a really big problem and they can't risk getting that wrong because that maker breaks their year right especially with the type of roles you're looking at you're a key player to execute and so being willing to have the confidence and self-trust that I know I can deliver value and let me prove it to you on a fractional basis what we've seen and I think you even started to put some spreadsheets together hey this could actually be very lucrative right because most of these people want you long term anyway they don't they actually need it yeah I like that that's the growth that's why I keep preaching this to everyone at CE and saying guys the fastest growing role right now is consultant

but something will trust that your value is coming back and I think that's one of the best advice you could give to people because it's so easy to get attached to any one company and right now that's the biggest risk of all is just being all in on anyone because there's just a lot of uncontrollables that none of us control anything right now but what we do control is our energy and our effort and our strategy how we're showing up and there still is a lot of opportunity in the market I know people are scared and watching the news and all the fear on AI and everything but what people are seeing at least I want to leave people with some hope is actually people want real leaders want to serve and that's desperately needed to provide the path forward because many markets are disrupted they need leadership